The Senior men's race at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Sporting Complex in Vilamoura, Portugal, on March 19, 2000. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, in the Herald, and for the IAAF.

Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.

Race results

Senior men's race (12.3 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Mohammed Mourhit 35:00 Assefa Mezegebu 35:01 Paul Tergat 35:02 4 Patrick Ivuti 35:03 5 Wilberforce Talel 35:06 6 Paul Koech 35:22 7 Charles Kamathi 35:51 8 Sergiy Lebid 35:52 9 Abdellah Béhar 35:55 10 Eduardo Henriques 35:56 11 Abraham Cherono 36:00 12 Domingos Castro 36:01 13 Karl Keska 36:13 14 Zebedayo Bayo 36:15 15 John Nada Saya 36:18 16 Lemma Alemayehu 36:20 17 Enrique Molina 36:22 18 Venry Hamalila 36:25 19 Javier Cortés 36:26 20 Samir Moussaoui 36:26 21 José Manuel Martínez 36:27 22 António Pinto 36:30 23 Tesfaye Tola 36:33 24 Mustapha Bamouh 36:42 25 Paulo Guerra 36:44 26 Meb Keflezighi 36:45 27 Amebesse Tolossa 36:46 28 Michael Ngaaseke 36:48 29 Alberto García 36:51 30 Wilbroad Axweso 36:53 31 Mathias Ntawulikura 36:53 32 Rachid Berradi 36:58 33 Claes Nyberg 37:01 34 Glynn Tromans 37:03 35 Benedict Ako 37:05 36 Mauricio Díaz 37:07 37 Sam Mwape 37:08 38 Saïd Berrioui 37:15 39 Abdelhadi Habassa 37:15 40 Alejandro Gómez 37:20 41 Vincenzo Modica 37:21 42 Simone Zanon 37:22 43 Sergey Lukin 37:22 44 Dereje Tadesse 37:23 45 Abdi Abdirahman 37:24 46 Kamel Kohil 37:25 47 Matt O'Dowd 37:26 48 Marco Mazza 37:28 49 Mohamed Driouche 37:29 50 Michael Aish 37:30 51 Teodoro Cuñado 37:31 52 Djamel Selatnia 37:31 53 Obed Mutanya 37:31 54 Stefan Van Den Broek 37:32 55 Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin 37:33 56 Alfredo Bráz 37:35 57 Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama 37:35 58 Brad Hauser 37:36 59 Toshiya Kono 37:36 60 Joseph Nsengiyumya 37:37 61 Yonas Kifle 37:37 62 Jon Wild 37:43 63 Andrew Panga 37:47 64 Benedito Gomes 37:48 65 Alberto Maravilha 37:49 66 Lahcen Benyoussef 37:52 67 Peter Sherry 37:54 68 Sergey Fedotov 37:55 69 Isidore Nizigiyimana 37:56 70 Roberto Antonelli 37:57 71 Wellington Fraga 37:58 72 Peter Matthews 38:00 73 Noel Berkeley 38:07 74 Debebe Demisse 38:09 75 Medison Chibwe 38:11 76 Nick Rogers 38:14 77 Cian McLoughlin 38:15 78 Mikhail Minyukhin 38:17 79 Angelo Carosi 38:21 80 Klaus-Peter Hansen 38:22 81 George Mofokeng 38:25 82 Ahmed Adam Saleh 38:25 83 Dermot Donnelly 38:31 84 Pacifique Ayabusa 38:32 85 Tau Khotso 38:33 86 Tom van Hooste 38:37 87 Dmitriy Maksimov 38:43 88 Nick Comerford 38:45 89 Paolo Doglio 38:46 90 Faizal Emamaullee 38:50 91 Fidencio Torres 38:57 92 Richard Arias 38:57 93 Takhir Mamashayev 38:57 94 Ville Hautala 38:58 95 Jussi Utriainen 38:59 96 Tayeb Kalloud 39:01 97 Simon Vroemen 39:06 98 Steve Lawrence 39:10 99 Pasi Mattila 39:12 100 Marcel Matanin 39:17 101 Seamus Power 39:18 102 Aleudo dos Santos 39:21 103 Farag Abdelnaby 39:23 104 Hiromitsu Sakakieda 39:27 105 Jerry van den Eede 39:32 106 Vladimir Guerra 39:34 107 Rob Denmark 39:43 108 Néstor Quinapanta 39:43 109 Jamal Abdi Hassan 39:44 110 Tesfit Berhe 39:45 111 Shesh Mani 39:46 112 Zarislav Gapeyenko 39:50 113 Gabriel Mazimpaka 39:53 114 Toni Bernadó 39:54 115 Ademir da Silva 39:58 116 Scott MacDonald 40:03 117 K.M. Chinnappa 40:03 118 Yoji Yamaguchi 40:06 119 Mohamed Suleiman 40:09 120 José Alberto Montenegro 40:09 121 Sipho Dlamini 40:11 122 David Milne 40:12 123 Santtu Mäkinen 40:21 124 Stan Rijken 40:27 125 Yam Bahadur Pudasaini 40:30 126 José Macias 40:35 127 Darwan Singh 41:01 128 Igor Salamun 41:15 129 Nazirdin Akylbekov 41:15 130 Parakhat Kurtgeldiyev 41:17 131 Washington Tenorio 41:25 132 Hussein Awada 41:25 133 Joze Ceh 41:27 134 Ivan Kibiryov 41:28 135 Nader Al-Nasry 41:36 136 Josep Sansa 41:36 137 Sergey Zabavskiy 41:37 138 Ali Awad 41:40 139 Khasan Rakhimov 41:53 140 Dashrath Tigga 41:55 141 Ahmed El Bahnasawy 42:01 142 Mehdi Chebli 42:04 143 Ghirma Woldu 42:12 144 Djamched Rasulov 42:33 145 António Zeferino 42:40 146 Vladimir Checha 42:43 147 Sokhibdjan Sharipov 42:53 148 Cesar Condori 42:58 149 Richard Muscat 43:26 150 Andrey Lavrinovich 43:36 151 Chokirjon Irmatov 43:50 152 Omar Abdel Latif 44:28 153 Michael Breed 44:38 154 Aleksandr Aniskevich 45:04 155 Timur Asanov 45:16 156 Serdar Gandymov 45:37 157 Rinat Ablyayev 46:06 158 Christopher Walker 46:48 159 Louis Chichon 47:28 160 Derek Hernández 49:30 — Leszek Bebło DNF — Antonio Silio DNF — Abderrahim Goumri DNF — Ihab Salama DNF — Abdelkrim Benzai DNF — Craig Kirkwood DNF — Richard Tremain DNF — Juuso Rainio DNF — Sigurd Haveland DNF — Artyom Tetenkin DNF — Othman Sulaiman DNF — Graham Cocksedge DNS — Jafar Babakhani DNS — Mohammed S.M. Albayed DNS — Abdal Salam Aldabaji DNS — Patrick Ishyaka DNS — Alphonse Munyeshyaka DNS — Dovletmammet Nazarov DNS — Timothy Hacker DNS

Teams Rank Team Points Paul Tergat 3 Patrick Ivuti 4 Wilberforce Talel 5 Paul Koech 6 (Charles Kamathi) (7) (Abraham Cherono) (11) 18 Assefa Mezegebu 2 Lemma Alemayehu 16 Tesfaye Tola 23 Amebesse Tolossa 27 (Dereje Tadesse) (44) (Debebe Demisse) (74) 68 Eduardo Henriques 10 Domingos Castro 12 António Pinto 22 Paulo Guerra 25 (Alfredo Bráz) (56) (Alberto Maravilha) (65) 69 4 Enrique Molina 17 Javier Cortés 19 José Manuel Martínez 21 Alberto García 29 (Alejandro Gómez) (40) (Teodoro Cuñado) (51) 86 5 Zebedayo Bayo 14 John Nada Saya 15 Wilbroad Axweso 30 Benedict Ako 35 (Andrew Panga) (63) 94 6 Karl Keska 13 Glynn Tromans 34 Matt O'Dowd 47 Jon Wild 62 (Nick Comerford) (88) (Rob Denmark) (107) 156 7 Rachid Berradi 32 Vincenzo Modica 41 Simone Zanon 42 Marco Mazza 48 (Roberto Antonelli) (70) (Angelo Carosi) (79) 163 8 Samir Moussaoui 20 Kamel Kohil 46 Mohamed Driouche 49 Djamel Selatnia 52 (Tayeb Kalloud) (96) (Abdelkrim Benzai) (DNF) 167 9 Mustapha Bamouh 24 Saïd Berrioui 38 Abdelhadi Habassa 39 Lahcen Benyoussef 66 (Abderrahim Goumri) (DNF) 167 10 Venry Hamalila 18 Sam Mwape 37 Obed Mutanya 53 Medison Chibwe 75 183 11 Meb Keflezighi 26 Abdi Abdirahman 45 Brad Hauser 58 Peter Sherry 67 (Nick Rogers) (76) 196 12 Mohammed Mourhit 1 Stefan Van Den Broek 54 Tom van Hooste 86 Jerry van den Eede 105 246 13 Sergey Lukin 43 Sergey Fedotov 68 Mikhail Minyukhin 78 Dmitriy Maksimov 87 276 14 Mathias Ntawulikura 31 Joseph Nsengiyumya 60 Pacifique Ayabusa 84 Gabriel Mazimpaka 113 288 15 Khamis Abdulla Saifeldin 55 Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama 57 Ahmed Adam Saleh 82 Jamal Abdi Hassan 109 (Mohamed Suleiman) (119) (Othman Sulaiman) (DNF) 303 16 Peter Matthews 72 Noel Berkeley 73 Cian McLoughlin 77 Dermot Donnelly 83 (Paolo Doglio) (89) (Seamus Power) (101) 305 17 Benedito Gomes 64 Wellington Fraga 71 Aleudo dos Santos 102 Ademir da Silva 115 352 18 Ville Hautala 94 Jussi Utriainen 95 Pasi Mattila 99 Santtu Mäkinen 123 (Juuso Rainio) (DNF) 411 19 Faizal Emamaullee 90 Steve Lawrence 98 Scott MacDonald 116 David Milne 122 (Richard Tremain) (DNF) 426 20 Richard Arias 92 Vladimir Guerra 106 Néstor Quinapanta 108 Washington Tenorio 131 437 21 Shesh Mani 111 K.M. Chinnappa 117 Darwan Singh 127 Dashrath Tigga 140 495 22 Zarislav Gapeyenko 112 Vladimir Checha 146 Andrey Lavrinovich 150 Aleksandr Aniskevich 154 562 23 Hussein Awada 132 Ali Awad 138 Mehdi Chebli 142 Omar Abdel Latif 152 564 24 Sergey Zabavskiy 137 Djamched Rasulov 144 Sokhibdjan Sharipov 147 Chokirjon Irmatov 151 579 25 Ivan Kibiryov 134 Khasan Rakhimov 139 Timur Asanov 155 Rinat Ablyayev 157 585 26 Richard Muscat 149 Michael Breed 153 Christopher Walker 158 Louis Chichon 159 (Derek Hernández) (160) (Sigurd Haveland) (DNF) 619 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result

Participation An unofficial count yields the participation of 171 athletes from 54 countries in the Senior men's race. The announced athlete from did not show.

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See also 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Men's short race 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

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